Brief Introduction to Xinhuanet Contact & Cooperation>> Sponsored by the Xinhua News Agency, Xinhuanet is China’s important central news service-oriented website, and one of the most influential news portals in the world.

Supported by the domestic and oversea branches of Xinhua News Agency and its 29 provincial channels and companies overseas, Xinhuanet has developed its own global network for collecting news and information, and is an all-media information gathering, processing and spreading platform, boasting a strong spreading power, a wide coverage, a comprehensive collecting means and varied forms of dissemination among the Chinese network media.

GMW.cn, official website of Guangming Daily, also called Guangming Online, is one of the major central news websites and a leader in innovation and media convergence.Guangming Reading, whose core value idea is “Enlightening people’s wisdom and life”, publishes information about books in time and recommends and introduces high-quality books. It pays close attention to news and hot topics of book industry and analyzes new polices of the industry as well. Aiming at improving readers’ quality of life, it provides them with reading experiences in an all round way, including words, pictures, data, voice and video.

China Economic Net (CE.cn), sponsored by the Economic Daily, was formally launched on July 28, 2003 as a large scale website aimed at providing the rapidly growing community of netizens with the timely, accurate and fair news stories; and reliable information services.

China Economic Net is committed to becoming the largest economic news portal with a wide range of internet services, as well as the most authoritative online hub of economic data covering a comprehensive range of industries in China.

As one of the most important channels of China Economic Net, Cultural Industry Channel is an all-media cultural information gathering, processing and spreading platform.

China.org.cn offers broad access to up-to-date news about China, with searchable texts of government position papers and a wealth of basic information about Chinese history, politics, economics and culture.

The authorized government portal site to China, China.org.cn is published under the auspices of the State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group (CIPG) in Beijing.

Tencent, or QQ.com, is the largest Chinese portal site with more than 600 million mobile users. Its Culture Center focuses on coverage of Chinese culture, learning and thinking and gathers many well-known scholars and writers.

In the past year, Culture Center has jointly organized many cultural projects with different embassies in China, which were well received by the society.

Together with overseas reporters from the US, the UK, Germany, Russia, Japan and many other countries, Culture Center expects to expand coverage of culture in depth in 2015.

Events held by the Culture Center of Tencent:

1. “Best Books in Chinese” Event
In cooperation with China Publishing & Media Journal, the Culture Center of Tencent selects 50 bests books out of 400,000 books published in China each year and awards the writers from home and abroad and publishers that have made great contribution to the cultural field in the year.

2. “China Best Books Yearly Selection” Event
In cooperation with the magazine of China Publishers, the Culture Center of Tencent tries to find and award the examples in China’s book industry in the year. The awards cover all sections of publishing, including the yearly best publisher, best author, best publishing house, best distributor, best book and more. The event is known as “Oscar of the Publishing Circle” in China.

Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of Web properties and community based/Web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination www.sohu.com; the interactive search engine www.sogou.com; the developer and operator of online games www.changyou.com/en/ and the leading online video Website tv.sohu.com .

Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as bid listing and home page on its in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also provides multiple news and information service on mobile platforms, including Sohu News App and mobile news portal m.sohu.com. Sohu’s online game subsidiary, Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU) has a diverse portfolio of popular online games, such as Tian Long Ba Bu (“TLBB”), one of the most popular PC games in China, as well as a number of mobile games. Changyou also owns and operates the 17173.com Website, a leading game information portal in China. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, is in its twentieth year of operation.

The Paper (Pengpai News) is one of China's leading digital media outlets, providing fast, original and in-depth news and opinion. Covering a breadth of subjects, The Paper has gained a reputation in particular for its political coverage and opinion pieces. Used by about 50 million readers daily, The Paper is the media outlet of choice for government officials, business figures and scholars across China.

China Reading Weekly,hosted by Guangming Daily and the Publishers Association of China, a central government level business newspaper on publishing industry, the only newspaper on reading and literature in China.

Founded in January 8, 2006，China Publishing Today (CPToday) , the unit of Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. is a professional publishing media approved by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of PRC. The new pragmatic style of CPToday has been recognized by more and more people including government officials and publishers.

With the deepening of reform，CPToday has been made a form correcting in 2014, Since then the newspaper magazine become a prominent feature of CPToday, 24 pages（32/40）and published once every two weeks with one cover story and one depth topic。The articles in CPToday always keep clear position and truth of souls that make the newspaper fly its own colours.

In the Internet age, rapid development of digital publishing push CPToday to change to multimedia which based on the newspaper and extended to other forms，such as website, WeChat, Weibo, e-paper, etc. the Products of CPToday include：

Discussing the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry with Chinese and international leaders of the book business.

The 2016 edition of the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry will be at the center of a half day conference in Beijing, organized by Bookdao (China), Livres Hebdo (France), and Ruediger Wischenbart Content and Consulting (Austria).

Date: Wednesday, August 24, from 14.00 to 17.00.

Location: Grand Metro Park Hotel Beijing, Chaoyang, East Rd. 2

The aim of the conference is to open a dialogue with senior leaders of both Chinese and international top executives in publishing.